With environmental concerns and innovation for clean energy at the forefront of technology, electric cars were created(although an old invention). They are powered by electric engines and emit less pollution. An example of an electric car is the Tesla.
Tesla is an American car company founded in 2003 (named after the awesome scientist Tesla).The roadster, their first car, launched in 2008. Unfortunately Tesla only sold just over 2400 cars. The roadster could run 245 miles with a fully charged battery. Three other models have produced with just over 50k units sold. The company is based in California.
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Tesla cars are powered via battery. Their cars are fully electric so the battery must be recharged constantly. Pollution is not produced via the tail pipe like regular vehicles BUT, the creation of electricity may be a pollutant, these cars are exponentially cleaner than their counterparts. Access to a charging unit or grid electricity is needed. Tesla cars can be charged at home for convenience.
Electric Charging Stations:
Tesla has it’s own car charging system. The plugs for Tesla cars are designed to be supported by any outlet. Each car comes with an outlet that allows the cars to adapt to home outlets and level 2 charging stations. There is teslas supercharging station, which can fill up a battery in an hour(which is awesome)
Typical home outlets will charge a car for 75 miles over 15 hours(120 volts) enough for 75 miles. Most public charging stations have an output of 240 volts, which would give a car a full charge in 8 hours. High tech specialized stations exist that can charge a car from 0 to 80% called level three chargers. They have an output of 480 volts. The car and charger have data pins and computers installed within them to allow the two to communicate, this allows for the owner to be notified of when charging is done, and for the charger to stop output once the car is fully charged.
(We have charging stations by northstation, on friends st, across the street from the garden)
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/electric-vehicles/how-do-battery-electric-cars-work#.ViUVCtY-DR0
http://www.teslamotors.com/about
http://www.cnet.com/news/slow-fast-and-faster-where-to-charge-electric-cars/